Jul 30, 2014

The 1st issue of DeAGOSTINI weekly magazine,`Weekly Robi` completed with 70 volumes on July 29, 2014. The 1st was issued on Feb. 19, 2013. The 2nd issue was also carried out on Feb 25, 2014. The Robi part was attached every weekly magazine. The first volume price was 790 yen including tax. Price of the 2nd volume was 1990 yen. The volume attached control board was 4,990 yen.

Dr.GIY-san who is famous for dancing robot, uploaded conversation video with his completed Robi.

DeAGOSTINI also issued weekly magazine, `Weekly ROBO XERO` with robot parts of ROBO XERO on Feb 8th, 2011. Robot has completed with 70 volumes of magazine on June, 2012 and the details were described in this blog.

The Carnival is robot competition consisted with various four type games such as Dash 2000(competition of 2 robots, 2 m U-turn course foot race; each robot gets points depended on the order of record time), Bottle Traction(pushing or pulling a basket with 500 or 1000 ml bottles for 2 m within 1 minute; points are multiplication of number of bottles and distance carried), Dice Shot(dice soccer of 2 robots; each robot gets points depended on the spots of dice shot for 2 minutes) and Cubs(team game of 3 robots each, carrying cubs to own territory for 2 minutes; winner team members get points) and Robot Fightwith the best 4 robots. Therefore, this Carnival is called `Robot Olympic`.

Each robot gets points from each game. In the case of team game, winner team member robots gets points. Four robots gotten many points can join the final tournament of Robot Fight. The rest robots have Ramble Fights. Those games were planned by Ishikawa-san.
It is necessary for winner that the robot has a high activity with performance and also good luck.

The 1st Carnival took place on July 16, 2006 and then the Carnival held twice in January and July every year. From 2010, the Carnival takes place in July once a year. Animader-san painted each event poster. As for the poster gallery, click here. The theme song of Carnival also can be downloaded here.

Seventeen Games such as 6 Combat Shooting, 2 Extermination Battle, 3 Duel Fight, 3 Tochka Battle, 2 Flag Battle and Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 21st. All games of videos were uploaded IKETOMU Channel and Noborizaka-san also uploaded videos.

The field and back side of the 21st Robot Survival Game at Moki-juku were as the next video:

Combat Shooting :
Combat shooting is a practice game for training of shoot skill. Robot moves to the shooting place from the starting point and shoots the target. Robot has to go to the shooting place for easy shooting. The target was a small can covered with aluminum foil. Shooting of the center place of the target got bonus points.

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I have been enjoying biped robot since 2004, when KHR-1 was put on the market, and collecting information of hobby robots. I would like to upload information about hobby robots in Japan for the hobbyists of biped robot all over the world. As my ability for uploading is limitted, I will introduce just news of product, kit or parts and information of competition etc. with picutures or videos.